{"id":2183,"date":"2026-07-03T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexicoplates.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:04:06","slug":"1952-distrito-federal-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexicoplates.com\/en\/2026\/07\/03\/1952-distrito-federal-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"1952 Distrito Federal Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2183\" class=\"elementor elementor-2183\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cc5257 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6cc5257\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c11c8c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5c11c8c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>While Mexico City oftens deals with chronic water shortages, heavy rain storms can flood the city streets in a moment.\u00a0 This was in 1952, as evidenced by the passenger plate on the rear of the car plying its way through the inundated streets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Mexico City oftens deals with chronic water shortages, heavy rain storms can flood the city streets in a moment.\u00a0 This was in 1952, as evidenced by the passenger plate on the rear of the car plying its way through the inundated streets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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